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Valuating the mess that is GM ... now there is something worthy of a Doctorate from Wharton, heh

Its hard to beat the marketing juggernaut that Firefox has become. OTOH Opera Mini is simply a wonderful app, and its an app I see installed by users themselves on smart phones eve…

There was a time when getting Linux running on a standard PC/laptop brough much joy ... Now its all about running Linux on beefy servers, obscure embedded devices, cell phones, clu…

William Deming is the reason the Japanese had high quality electronics. American's wouldn't listen to him, the Japanese needed him desperately. Today the Japanese love that man. (W…

Its amazing how Entourage isn't even a proper Exchange client, rather an OWA hack. Its a huge show stopper.

Here is a company that clearly never ate their own dog food ...

Why do innovative software authors keep limiting themselves to Crapple's communist-like platform ? Isn't blackberry the #1 selling smartphone anyways ? (I see a lot more of them in…

I used Caker's Linode back when he was a startup with only 4 nodes circa: 2002 :) Good luck to you!

Two things to consider: A) Slicehost isn't an overnite operation. Not saying I don't wish Prgmr all the luck in the world, but still ... B) vCPUs don't matter as much as the guest/…

Its not advisable to switch to Ext4 until at least kernel 2.6.30, which is not out yet. http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6... (Read 'Data Security' sectio…

I like DD-WRT for my router as well. Its just plain awesome, and their router compatibility page tells you exactly which model's do and do not work, and if what extra steps are nee…

IBM still charges big banks CPU time on the bank's own hardware. Big bank backend apps are written to sleep as much as possible, and then do everything all at once in order to save…

So on one hand, no country should ever take its currency's favor status for granted. But if you've ever spent a fraction of your life looking at the rules and regulations behind cu…

I feared the day the pro-Apple kidiots would take over HN ... This article tells us nothing we did not know, provides no meaningful insight, and then tells us in no-way-shape-or-fo…

Pro Apple infestation of HN in 3 ... 2 .... 1 ... Seriously, when two spouses bicker, is it ever news worthy ??

Thank you for nailing it. While its true that Facebook users always bitch and moan about changes. This time they're bitchin' and moanin' annnddd using a very key word: confusing. I…

The top menu is not an Apple innovation, rather an Amazon.com innovation. During the dot-bomb era, EVERYONE ended up having one.